{"id":421,"date":"2018-10-26T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/the-curiosity-and-wonder-of-child\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:15:35","slug":"the-curiosity-and-wonder-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"The Curiosity and Wonder of a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Curiosity and Wonder of a Child
\nThis post was inspired by a friend who explained how she was off and running, after her baby started walking and was getting into EVERYTHING! Our lives come in stages. The first stage is infancy when that precious newborn can only cry, sleep, eat and provide reasons for diapers \u2013 lots of them. At first, he can only detect light and motion and after about a month, he can make eye contact and focus on objects about 12 inches away. But when his full vision comes to be, a whole new world is opened to him. His is the world of curiosity and adventure as he reaches and puts his little hands on everything. In fact, he is so curious that we have to cover our electric sockets because those little fingers want to discover what those holes are all about. Curiosity and wonder are inbred in this little one. Then he starts to walk. This is the sweetest, yet often concerning times for his parents, as my friend shared: \u201cWhat\u2019s he going to get into next? Oh my goodness \u2013 he pulled all the toilet paper off the roll! He’s eating the dog’s food!\u201d Then he starts to talk and soon is asking questions. Remember those little ones asking \u201cWhat’s that? Why? Why is the sky blue?\u201d \u201cWhy does the dog bark?\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s curious, inquisitive, wondering AND wandering. Oh, to be filled with curiosity and a sense of wonder and awe again \u2013 like those little ones! Don\u2019t you know that is something that God wants for us, as His children, to embrace again? We who have lived several decades know what it is to become busy with life and pressing needs like food, water and shelter so we leave little room for curiosity, being inquisitive and finding wonder. We know what it is to make mistakes, so we become a little gun-shy (cautious) with life, instead of giving our curiosity full reign to being spontaneous to new adventures, asking questions, and seeking new ways of doing things. That\u2019s not the case with children. The future is wide open for them, and they seem to know it. Wide-eyed with wonder, filled with potential, they are ready to see the possibilities all around them. Unhindered by the past, they are free to wake up each morning with enthusiasm and delight for what this day holds. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the childlike spirit that God wants for all of us. God doesn\u2019t us to think we are too old, too wounded, too limited, too whatever. Adventure awaits us when we take off the restraints of complacency. May we become curious again. May we seek and find treasures in friends who have knowledge and a wealth of wisdom to share. There are exciting places to go and things to do. Our Father has great plans for us. It\u2019s up to us to run into that future with all the confidence of a little child!
\nMatthew 18:2-4 \u201cJesus called a little child to him. He stood the child before the followers. Then he said, \u201cI tell you the truth. You must change and become like little children. If you don\u2019t do this, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. The greatest person in the kingdom of heaven is the one who makes himself humble like this child.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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